Recaps

Houtu resisted Leize’s Heavenly Punishment with the Six Paths Reincarnation Disk and her laws, leaving the witch-demon battle at a stalemate. Li Fan arrived, suppressed six Ancestral Witches for one million years, and had Nuwa heal the wounded before the first Witch-Demon War ended.

• Houtu used the Six Paths Reincarnation Disk and the Laws of Reincarnation and Earth to withstand Leize’s Purple Xiao Divine Thunder, and the two sides reached a stalemate.
• Li Fan left Grand Unity Palace with Nuwa and arrived at the battlefield as Taiyi, Di Jun, Leize, and Houtu acknowledged him.
• Li Fan suppressed Dijiang, Zhu Jiuyin, Gonggong, Zhurong, Rushou, and Shebishi deep in the Earth Veins for one million years.
• Nuwa used the Creation Green Lotus to heal the wounded members of the Witch and Demon Clans.
• Li Fan and Nuwa departed, and the first Witch-Demon War came to an end.

After the Ancestral Witches were suppressed, Houtu and Xuanming agreed to attend Hongjun’s second sermon and joined Nuwa’s group on the journey to Purple Heaven Palace. As the guests gathered and took their seats, Li Fan stayed behind while Empress Ziguang entered seclusion to prepare for a breakthrough.

• Xuanming shaved the heads of Dijiang and five other Ancestral Witches, while Houtu laughed and the Witches accepted that they had been unable to oppose the Heavenly Emperor.
• Houtu and Xuanming agreed to represent the Witch Clan at Hongjun’s sermon, and Li Fan told them to travel with Nuwa and the others.
• A hundred years later, Nuwa, Changxi, Nüyi, Houtu, Xuanming, and the others departed for Purple Heaven Palace, while Empress Ziguang began secluded cultivation to pursue Hunyuan Grand Unity.
• At Purple Heaven Palace, Nuwa teased Haotian, Di Jun stopped Taiyi from confronting her, and Leize and Minghe glared at one another.
• Haotian and Yaochi opened the gates, and the Three Thousand Purple Heaven Guests took their seats to await Hongjun.

Hongjun began his second sermon in Purple Heaven Palace while Goddess Taiyuan’s attempt to restore the Buzhou Mountain formation threatened to destroy it. The Heavenly Dao granted Taiyuan a strand of Hongmeng Purple Qi to make the Investiture of the Gods the formation’s vessel, and the formation sealed the ancient prisoners within once more.

• Hongjun began preaching the path of the Quasi-Saint to the Three Thousand Purple Heaven Guests.
• Goddess Taiyuan attacked the failing Zhou Mountain Divine Prohibition Grand Formation with her Divine Prohibition Light, while Li Fan and Goddess Wangshu came to Buzhou Mountain to see what was happening.
• Ancient mighty figures trapped in the formation begged Taiyuan to spare them, and Gonggong feared that her attack was aimed at him.
• Li Fan explained that the Heavenly Dao could preserve the formation by making the Investiture of the Gods its vessel, and Hongjun returned from Purple Heaven Palace with a strand of Hongmeng Purple Qi.
• Taiyuan took the Hongmeng Purple Qi, and the restored formation sealed the ancient mighty figures inside Buzhou Mountain again.

Goddess Taiyuan used Buzhou Mountain, the Four Symbols Origin, and the Divine Prohibition Grand Formation to transform the Investiture of the Gods into an Innate Supreme Treasure. After the formation left Buzhou Mountain, Li Fan ordered the ancient mighty experts to leave, while Hongjun resumed his interrupted preaching at Purple Heaven Palace.

• Goddess Taiyuan merged the Hongmeng Purple Qi, Buzhou Mountain's power, and the Divine Prohibition Grand Formation into the Investiture of the Gods, completing its transformation into an Innate Supreme Treasure.
• The Divine Prohibition Grand Formation separated from Buzhou Mountain, whose depleted origin left a crack at its base as flowers and plants began growing across it.
• The Jade Plate of Creation resonated with the Heavenly Book and showed its advancement at Purple Heaven Palace, interrupting Hongjun's preaching and startling the gathered cultivators.
• Li Fan warned the ancient mighty experts to leave Buzhou Mountain, and they withdrew before he, Taiyuan, and Wangshu walked across its summit.
• Hongjun returned to Purple Heaven Palace, silenced the noisy cultivators, and resumed the preaching.

Hongjun ended his sermon on the Quasi-Saint path and explained that Innate Spiritual Treasures were best for Severing Three Corpses, stirring greed among the cultivators. On Buzhou Mountain, Li Fan, Wangshu, and Taiyuan carefully opened the formation around the Innate Gourd Vine, and Li Fan began restoring its damaged origin.

• Hongjun's Dao Sound damaged the Six-Eared Macaque's divine ability after he eavesdropped on the sermon again.
• Li Fan, Wangshu, and Taiyuan found the Innate Gourd Vine on Buzhou Mountain and worked together to open its formation without damaging it.
• Hongjun taught that Quasi-Saints advanced by severing good thoughts, evil thoughts, and obsessions, and that Innate Spiritual Treasures were the best tools for the process.
• The cultivators left Purple Heaven Palace wary of one another, while Kunpeng fixed his attention on a cultivator carrying an Innate Spiritual Treasure.
• Li Fan, Wangshu, and Taiyuan broke the formation around the Gourd Vine, and Li Fan used the Sea-Calming Divine Pearl to restore its origin.

Li Fan claimed the Innate Gourd Vine after it acknowledged him, then distributed six of its mature gourds among the goddesses. He preserved the vine and its final purple gourd, explained that harvesting it would destroy the vine, and led the remaining goddesses to search Buzhou Mountain for the Banana Tree.

• The Innate Gourd Vine detached from Buzhou Mountain and wrapped around Li Fan’s wrist, acknowledging him as its master.
• Nuwa, Changxi, and the others arrived with the Three Pure Ones and other cultivators, but Taishang recognized that the vine belonged to Li Fan and the visitors departed without claiming gourds.
• Li Fan gave the yin, metal, wood, water, fire, and earth gourds to Changxi, Xihua, Nüyi, Baili, Xihe, and Nuwa, and instructed them to plan how to refine the treasures.
• Li Fan collected the vine, its final purple gourd, and the Nine Heavens Breathing Soil into the Sea-Calming Divine Pearl, explaining that picking the final gourd would ruin the vine.
• Li Fan invited Houtu, Xuanming, Nine Heavens Xuan Nü, and Su Nü to search Buzhou Mountain for the Four Symbols Spiritual Root, the Banana Tree.

Nuwa failed to find the Innate Banana Tree before Li Fan sensed a Chaos Pearl Fragment on Buzhou Mountain and led the goddesses to it. They found the tree inside the Innate Four Symbols Grand Formation, and Li Fan and Houtu began using water and earth power to mature its remaining leaves.

• Nuwa returned from searching Buzhou Mountain without finding the Innate Banana Tree, while Li Fan told her about the Four Symbols Divine Beasts.
• Azure Dragon, White Tiger, Vermillion Bird, and Black Tortoise agreed to become the Four Spirits of Heaven in one hundred thousand years, and Ancestor Dragon and Candle Dragon advised Azure Dragon to seek Li Fan's guidance.
• Li Fan sensed the Sea-Calming Divine Pearl reacting to a Chaos Pearl Fragment and followed it west with Wangshu, Taiyuan, and Nuwa.
• Li Fan's group saw three thousand Medium Worlds rising around the Path to Heaven, and Xihe summoned the other goddesses to join them.
• Nuwa revealed the Innate Four Symbols Grand Formation, and Li Fan used the Sea-Calming Divine Pearl to open a gap and find the fruitless Banana Tree inside.
• Li Fan used water-origin power to mature the tree's water-attributed leaf, and Houtu began nourishing its earth-attributed leaf with Earth Vein power.

After the Innate Banana Tree matured, Li Fan distributed its four leaves to Houtu, Xuanming, Xuan Nü, and Su Nü, then discovered the Four Symbols Pearl beneath its roots. The Four Symbols Pearl resonated with the Five Spirit Pearls and transformed the Thirty-Six Heavens, prompting Li Fan to begin advancing the Sea-Calming Divine Pearls into an Innate Supreme Treasure.

• The four Innate Banana leaves matured, and the Four Symbols Great Dao Diagram appeared above Buzhou Mountain, drawing the attention of Lingbao Tianzun and the other experts.
• Li Fan gave the earth, wind, fire, and water leaves to Houtu, Xuanming, Xuan Nü, and Su Nü, respectively.
• Li Fan saved the withering Banana Tree with Three Lights Divine Water and moved it into the Thirty-Six Heavens, where it took root and began sprouting again.
• Li Fan dug beneath the Banana Tree and unearthed four origin pearls that combined into the Four Symbols Pearl.
• The Four Symbols Pearl resonated with the Thirty-Six Sea-Calming Divine Pearls and the Five Spirit Pearls, transforming the Thirty-Six Heavens and perfecting the Hongmeng Purple Qi within the Sea-Calming Divine Pearls.
• Li Fan declared that the Sea-Calming Divine Pearls should advance into an Innate Supreme Treasure.

Li Fan advanced the Sea-Calming Divine Pearls into an Innate Supreme Treasure by guiding them through the River of Fate and creating a world within each pearl. After the pearls completed their transformation and merged into his primordial spirit, Li Fan surveyed the Primordial World.

• Li Fan summoned the River of Fate and used his Supreme Heavenly Emperor Incarnation to shield the Sea-Calming Divine Pearls as they ascended against its current.
• Yuanshi urged Taishang to accept Saint Hongjun's offer to join the Profound Sect in exchange for treasures, and Taishang agreed to treat it as a transaction.
• Lingbao Tianzun broke an Innate Formation on Buzhou Mountain and claimed the Supreme Grade Innate Spiritual Treasure Fishing Drum.
• Li Fan used the Five Elements Pearl, Four Symbols Pearl, and Hongmeng Purple Qi to create a miniature Prototype Chaos and open a Source-grade Great Thousand World within each of the Thirty-Six Sea-Calming Divine Pearls.
• The Thirty-Six Sea-Calming Divine Pearls emerged from the River of Fate as completed Innate Supreme Treasures, and Li Fan merged them into his primordial spirit.

Nuwa, Xihua, Xihe, Nüyi, and Baili used the Qiankun Cauldron to forge five Innate Divine Swords inside the Five Elements gourds and successfully created the Innate Five Elements Gourd Sword Formation. Its appearance awed cultivators across the Primordial World, while Ancestor Dragon lamented the formation’s connection to the Five Directional Banners.

• The five goddesses’ first attempts to forge compatible swords for the Five Elements gourds failed, ruining sword embryos and exhausting Taiyuan’s Creation Cauldron.
• Taiyuan lent Nuwa and the others the Qiankun Cauldron and offered to activate its Qiankun Fire so the swords and gourds could be refined together.
• Nuwa, Xihua, Xihe, Nüyi, and Baili forged five Innate Divine Sword embryos and tempered them inside their corresponding gourds.
• The five goddesses formed the Innate Five Elements Gourd Sword Formation, which spread across hundreds of millions of miles above Grand Unity Heaven.
• Ancestor Dragon sensed the formation from the East Sea, looked at the Xuan Yuan Water Control Banner, and lamented what he saw as a missed opportunity.

As Grand Unity Golden Immortals fought over Innate Spiritual Treasures to sever their corpses, Calamity Energy gathered and the Primordial World began to react. The Four Spirits asked Li Fan for help guarding the four directions, and he gave them Four Symbols Origin to establish a world that would lessen the Heavenly Dao’s restrictions.

• Di Jun, Taiyi, Taishang, Zhunti, Jieyin, and other powerful figures pursued different methods of severing corpses, while Zhen Yuanzi used the Ginseng Fruit Tree.
• Innate Spiritual Treasures cried out as their spirituality was worn away, and Calamity Energy gathered as the Primordial World responded.
• Azure Dragon, Vermillion Bird, White Tiger, and Black Tortoise asked Li Fan to help them guard the four directions without losing their freedom of will.
• Li Fan gave each of the Four Spirits a strand of Four Symbols Origin so they could open the Four Symbols Great Thousand World and avoid some Heavenly Dao restrictions.
• After the Four Spirits departed, Li Fan said their establishment could weaken the Karmic Shackles on Ancestor Dragon and Yuanfeng, while Wangshu criticized East King Duke’s actions.

Azure Dragon, Vermillion Bird, White Tiger, and Black Tortoise opened four Great Thousand Worlds and swore to guard the Primordial World, completing the Four Extremes Sacred Beast Grand Formation. Li Fan received the greatest share of merit and issued edicts naming the four beasts divine lords as the Four Symbols Origin was fused into heaven and earth.

• Azure Dragon, Vermillion Bird, White Tiger, and Black Tortoise gained support from Ancestor Dragon and Yuanfeng and spent ten thousand years preparing to open worlds at the four poles.
• Ancestor Dragon, Yuanfeng, Tiger Ancestor, and Black Turtle helped the four beasts open Great Thousand Worlds, alarming Grand Unity Experts across the Primordial World.
• Azure Dragon, Vermillion Bird, White Tiger, and Black Tortoise swore to guard the four directions, offered up portions of their origins, and completed the Four Extremes Sacred Beast Grand Formation.
• Heavenly Dao and Humanity Dao bestowed merit, and the largest share went to Li Fan, who sent the Hongmeng Measuring Ruler to gather it.
• Nuwa urged Li Fan to issue edicts, and he created four divine seals with the Sea-Calming Divine Pearl and his Heavenly Emperor authority.
• Azure Dragon became Divine Lord Mengzhang, Vermillion Bird became Divine Lord Lingguang, White Tiger became Jianbing Divine Lord, and Black Tortoise became Divine Lord Zhiming as they received their seals and proclaimed their authority over the four regions.

As tensions between the Immortal Court and the Demon Clan escalated, Li Fan authorized Huang Tian to respond to Taiyi’s actions in the Southern Heavenly Realm. After a hundred thousand years of seclusion, Empress Ziguang challenged the Hunyuan Grand Unity tribulation and passed its physical trial, as the River of Fate appeared overhead.

• The Four Spirit Divine Lords’ alliance with the Heavenly Realm increased pressure on Di Jun, Taiyi, and East King Duke, while the Immortal Court and Demon Clan began probing each other’s borders.
• Huang Tian told Li Fan that Taiyi was spreading demon ideology in the Southern Yan Tian Domain, and Li Fan permitted him to act without going too far.
• After a hundred thousand years of cultivation, Empress Ziguang emerged from seclusion and summoned the Hunyuan Grand Unity tribulation above Grand Unity Heaven.
• Empress Ziguang endured nine Violet Firmament Divine Thunders and passed her Hunyuan physical body tribulation, reaching the Perfection of Hunyuan Golden Immortal.
• The River of Fate appeared across the firmament as the decisive moment of Empress Ziguang’s tribulation arrived.

Empress Ziguang transcended the River of Fate and attained Hunyuan, becoming Doumu Yuanjun and bringing a new Hunyuan expert to the Primordial World. Afterward, she discussed the dangers of her breakthrough and learned how Goddess Taiyuan’s Heavenly Book had become an Innate Supreme Treasure.

• Empress Ziguang used three Innate Spiritual Treasures and her Dao Fruit to transcend the River of Fate, attaining Hunyuan as Doumu Yuanjun.
• The Ziwei Emperor Star and the stars across the heavens shone in response, while beings throughout the Prehistoric Universe congratulated Doumu Yuanjun.
• Randeng lamented that he had missed both sermons on the Hun Yuan Great Dao, while the awakened goddesses and others congratulated Ziguang at the Grand Unity Palace.
• Ziguang told Li Fan and Wangshu that she had nearly lost herself in the River of Fate without an Innate Supreme Treasure, and Taiyuan revealed that her Heavenly Book had become one.
• Ziguang learned how the Heavenly Book had advanced, then discussed the Dao with the goddesses; Nuwa, Changxi, and the others gained an initial grasp of Star Law and entered seclusion.

Taiyi went to the Yantian Realm to demand the Demon Clan hostages from Huang Tian, while the Demon Clan faced attacks on its northern border. Taiyi severed the Chaos Bell into his Evil Corpse, renaming the treasure the Eastern Emperor Bell as black snow descended across the Primordial World.

• Di Jun, Taiyi, Fuxi, and Bai Ze discussed the detained demons, and Fuxi advised reconciling with Great Emperor Longevity of the South Pole.
• Taiyi rejected compromise and flew alone to the Yantian Realm; Fuxi went to Grand Unity Palace to consult Nuwa.
• Minghe hoped the conflict would draw Great Emperor Longevity into a fight with Leize, while East King Duke ordered Chi Chen, Zhu Yan, Qing Yuan, and others to invade the northern lands.
• Taiyi demanded the hostages from Huang Tian, who claimed the captured demons had become food for the Taiping Divine Kingdom.
• Taiyi severed his Evil Corpse and imprinted his Dao on the Chaos Bell, splitting his origin and Dao Fruit in the process.
• Black snow fell across the Primordial World, and the Chaos Bell was renamed the Eastern Emperor Bell.

The Eastern Emperor, Taiyi’s out-of-control Evil Corpse, attacked Huang Tian and began devouring Yantian Realm with a Chaos Space Vortex. Li Fan intervened with the Pure World White Lotus and sealed the Eastern Emperor in a crater, while Taiyi realized the crisis was far from over.

• Hongjun, Fuxi, and the others discussed the mutated Chaos Bell and the danger posed by Taiyi’s Eastern Emperor avatar.
• The Eastern Emperor used a Chaos Space Vortex to counter Huang Tian’s Divine Light of Thunderous Judgment, tearing apart Yantian Realm and swallowing many fleeing demons.
• Taiyi discovered he could no longer communicate with or control his Evil Corpse.
• Li Fan arrived and used the Twelve-Grade Pure World White Lotus to dispel the black snow, suppress the vortex, and restrain the Eastern Emperor.
• Li Fan struck the Eastern Emperor into the northern earth and sealed him in a crater, then departed without addressing Taiyi.
• Taishang, Yuanshi, and Lingbao condemned Taiyi’s corruption of the Chaos Bell and grew hostile toward the Demon Clan.

After Taiyi was gravely wounded and suppressed, Hongjun helped East King Duke prepare the Immortal Court for war against the Demon Clan. The two armies finally marched out to confront one another, igniting the immortal-demon war.

• Hongjun urged East King Duke to launch the war, and East King Duke began gathering the Immortal Court’s Grand Unity Golden Immortals.
• Taiyi returned to the Demon Emperor Hall to recover, while Li Fan declared that the Eastern Emperor must die and Heaven, Earth, and Man’s killing intent plunged the Prehistoric Universe into chaos.
• East King Duke officially declared war on the Demon Clan, and Di Jun ordered the Ten Great Demon Sages and Demon Clan warriors to prepare for battle.
• Fuxi told Di Jun that the Heavenly Emperor and the others had decided the Eastern Emperor must die, and Di Jun feared Taiyi would learn the news.
• One year later, Di Jun led the Demon Clan army north as the Immortal Court advanced from the east, and the two forces faced each other as war began.

The Immortal Court and Demon Clan forces fought to a bloody stalemate while East King Duke waited for the Ten Thousand Immortals Array. After Leize intervened, Li Fan called on the Dragon Clan to deal with him, and Ancestor Dragon arrived on the battlefield as Leize challenged East King Duke.

• The Ten Great Immortal Venerables and Ten Great Demon Sages clashed in a fierce battle that left both sides deadlocked.
• Di Jun considered joining forces with Fuxi against East King Duke, but Fuxi left the decision to him as Leize appeared and unleashed thunder across the battlefield.
• Li Fan asked Candle Dragon whether Leize still belonged to the Dragon Clan, and Candle Dragon agreed that Ancestor Dragon would handle the matter.
• Candle Dragon woke Ancestor Dragon from seclusion and told him what Leize and the Eastern Emperor had done, prompting Ancestor Dragon to reveal his Sub-Saint pressure and head for the battlefield.
• Leize dismissed East King Duke's warning, then froze when Ancestor Dragon's voice sounded behind him.

Ancestor Dragon confronted Leize on the battlefield and defeated him after Leize burned his Grand Unity Dao Fruit in a final attack. Leize underwent Dao Transformation, leaving Ancestor Dragon victorious as the immortal and demon armies scattered.

• Ancestor Dragon ignored Taiyi’s attempt to mediate and challenged Leize, revealing that he had reached the Sub-Saint level.
• Ancestor Dragon trapped Leize inside a sphere of water laws and overwhelmed his Heavenly Punishment Divine Thunder, while Taiyi could not intervene.
• Leize burned his Grand Unity Dao Fruit, broke free, and attacked Ancestor Dragon with an Annihilation Thunder Spear.
• Ancestor Dragon summoned the power of dragon energy through Dragon Roams the World and pierced Leize’s spear, striking his Dao Fruit.
• Leize underwent Dao Transformation and dissolved into Lightning Light as he spoke of returning beyond heaven and earth.

After Leize’s death ended the Immortal-Demon war, Li Fan and the goddesses visited Hongjun as he completed the Myriad Immortals Diagram. They negotiated over Leize’s thunder authority, reaching an agreement with the Heavenly Dao before Hongjun departed.

• Li Fan said the Immortal-Demon war would soon resume and led Wangshu, Taiyuan, Ziguang, and Nuwa to find Hongjun and discuss Leize’s authority.
• East King Duke welcomed Li Fan and the goddesses, and Li Fan healed the wounded Immortal Dao cultivators with spiritual rain.
• Li Fan and the four goddesses spent a hundred years traveling through the Ten Continents of the Purple Mansion while Hongjun refined the Myriad Immortals Diagram.
• Hongjun completed the Myriad Immortals Diagram, transforming it into a Hunyuan-level formation vessel and a tool for manifesting Heavenly Dao rules.
• Wangshu demanded that the Heavenly Dao take no more than half of Leize’s thunder authority, and Li Fan used the Jade Plate of Creation to negotiate an agreement with the Heavenly Dao.
• Hongjun left after the Heavenly Dao accepted the agreement and playfully bumped the Jade Plate of Creation against him.

East King Duke enlisted Xihua to strengthen the Immortal Court’s Ten Thousand Immortals Array as war with the Demon Clan loomed. After the Eastern Emperor negotiated with Taiyi, Di Jun, and Fuxi, he shattered his seal and returned to the world.

• East King Duke asked Xihua to preside over the Ten Thousand Immortals Array, and she agreed to help him face the Demon Clan.
• Taiyi, Di Jun, and Fuxi discussed how to deal with the Eastern Emperor and went to the forbidden ground where he was sealed.
• The Eastern Emperor demanded that Taiyi let him control the Demon Clan and agreed to break his own seal after Taiyi temporarily granted him that control.
• A million years later, the Eastern Emperor used Space Law to destroy the chains of the Law of World and declared that he had returned.

The Eastern Emperor fought East King Duke and Xihua as Hongjun’s contingency helped the Ten Thousand Immortals Array strike at his Great Dao Origin. The Eastern Emperor destroyed himself in a devastating explosion, and the chapter ended with Li Fan considering whether East King Duke’s Good Corpse, Emperor Donghua, could be saved.

• East King Duke and Xihua activated the Ten Thousand Immortals Array against the newly freed Eastern Emperor.
• The Eastern Emperor burned the Eastern Emperor Bell’s origin and struck at East King Duke and Xihua, while Li Fan sent the Sea-Calming Divine Pearls toward the battlefield.
• East King Duke joined with the formation and risked his life to confront the Eastern Emperor, prompting Hongjun’s World-Opening Air Blade to attack the Eastern Emperor’s Great Dao Origin.
• The mortally wounded Eastern Emperor burned his Dao Fruit and the Eastern Emperor Bell’s origin, then detonated himself, destroying the Ten Thousand Immortals Array and killing many Immortal Court and Demon Clan fighters.
• Li Fan and the others arrived to find the Immortal Court destroyed, East King Duke near death, and Xihua tending to the survivors.
• Li Fan considered trying to save East King Duke’s Good Corpse, Emperor Donghua, because East King Duke’s true body could not be saved.

After the Immortal-Demon War, Li Fan saved East King Duke by separating his original body from his Good Corpse, which inherited Donghua’s Dao Fruit and became ruler of the Western Extreme. As Donghua began his new role, Li Fan and Wangshu quietly considered the implications of the damaged Chaos Bell.

• Hongjun asked Li Fan whether East King Duke could be saved, and Li Fan explained that his Good Corpse would need to become independent while his original body entered Reincarnation, likely losing its memories.
• East King Duke accepted the price, and Hongjun offered his Good Corpse the position of Western Extreme Vast Jade Heavenly Emperor.
• Li Fan used the Twenty-Four Petal Creation Green Lotus to preserve East King Duke’s original body and the Hongmeng Measuring Ruler to sever its connection to the Good Corpse.
• East King Duke’s original body became innate Pure Sun Qi, while his Good Corpse inherited his Dao Fruit, received Hongjun’s divine authority, and proclaimed himself Donghua Purple Mansion Young Sun Emperor.
• Di Jun and Taiyi left with the Myriad Immortals Diagram and damaged Eastern Emperor Bell, while Yuanshi cursed the Demon Clan over the Bell’s lingering ties to its fortune.
• Li Fan warned Donghua to stabilize his Quasi-Saint realm, then departed with Wangshu as Xihua returned to West Kunlun; Li Fan kept the meaning of his and Wangshu’s knowing laugh secret from Empress Ziguang.

Qiangliang invaded Minghe’s Blood Sea to absorb its baleful aura, and Minghe’s attempt to stop him brought the Twelve Ancestral Witches together. The Witch Clan secured permission to cultivate in the Blood Sea, but Li Fan warned that hidden Chaos Demon God essence blood could spark a more dangerous conflict.

• Qiangliang entered the Blood Sea to absorb its baleful aura, prompting Minghe to attack him with Yuantu and Abi and trap him in the Blood Sea killing array.
• Houtu arrived and ordered Minghe to release Qiangliang, while Dijiang, Zhu Jiuyin, Gonggong, Zhurong, and the other Ancestral Witches gathered.
• Minghe withdrew the array and allowed the Witch Clan to take baleful aura from the Blood Sea, then retreated into its depths.
• The Twelve Ancestral Witches arranged for the Witch Clan to garrison the Blood Sea, with Houtu guarding it personally.
• Li Fan warned that the Witch Clan could cause trouble and that Ancestral Witches who absorbed the Chaos Demon God essence blood hidden below might damage their bloodlines.

The Witch and Demon Clans expanded into the Eastern Primordial World, bringing them closer to conflict, while Baili reinforced Qingqiu against the Witch Clan. Li Fan watched the approaching war as Yuanshi and Lingbao argued over Lingbao taking a Treasure Seeking Rat as his disciple.

• Dijiang led the Witch Clan into the Eastern Primordial World, established eight strongholds, and ordered the Ancestral Witches to defend them and monitor the Demon Clan.
• Zhurong reported that Baili had blocked his advance toward Qingqiu, and Dijiang ordered him to avoid provoking the Qingqiu Fox Clan and the Heavenly Emperor’s forces.
• Baili recruited Taihua, Qing Shuang Dragon Spirit, and Phoenix Lord Ling Xi to help defend Qingqiu.
• Li Fan observed the Witch and Demon Clans’ growing conflict and anticipated using the Twelve Ancestral Witches’ formation to reach the Nine Netherworlds.
• Lingbao Tianzun defended his plan to take the Treasure Seeking Rat as a disciple while Yuanshi objected, and Taishang watched their argument.